St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-06-04

n Rev wages Rasa ~ 0loehlng MAour
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eyes, We have been cut down shame.
fully In tho past four q i've years. and I
Am not able 70 make . living alone now"
said an old lady that lives in the nth door
Of . Third street tenement house to .
Cincinnati N@e reporter tho other morn
ing. She has been making pants and
vests for wholesale clothiers here for
fifteen years, - che has been . widow for
snumbeS Of years and BY hard work .
succeeded In raising three daughters and
two sons.
sYou still work at the businessi" asked
The reporter.
'Oh, yes, for I got along better than I
used 70. . my girls arc now old enough to
Aelp me, but il I had to do IL alone, as ]
did when We were paid more, I would DO
swamped. No ono Of us could make . liv-
ing now, but IL costs NO o to keep us
now than formerly, and tho o Of US
make, and manage to get along very we'll"
"What prices are you getting nowr'
"Here are some pants" and b old lady
with locks that have long since told the
story Of life's winter by their Wilderness.
handed the writer . pair Of jeans pants Of
the cheapest quality, 'that I am making
IOf ono OOlI0T y OOxSus III 0lBuS ouO OAO
third cents apiece"
sHow many pairs Of these can you make
In . day by working ten hours"
~Not more thar three pairs to q my
soul, and you can readily see that 40 fami-
" like mine could exist ON twenty-five
cents . day. But I want to b fair with
you. When I was young ! expect I could
mako five or six pairs IL I worked IS fast
% l could and did nothing else, but In
those days I got g. 50 and Is . dozen for
the same work. Now my three girls and
myself, By denying them every priv.
ilege Of going out and all Of us living as
slaves We arc able to max about $le .
week, o. We turn out about $50 pairs, or
twelve dozen, every Saturday night"
"Are these the lowest prices you know
of"
'sNo, I know of . woman that IL making
about the same quality Of work q this
and 10 only getting ninety cents for .
dozen pairs"
different firms may vary In priest"
Eyes, they dc There IS all the differ
ence in the world In b firm one works
for. Now, I know Of some that will find
fault with every thing, and will put on
paying their sewing women as long a.
possible. Why, / know OF one firm that
would not Allow tho women tnSb WOrke0
for them to enter their store 1t the public
entrance. Now, I just como out nat
footed and told HIM that II l wasn't good
enough to walk in the Same door other
people did I wasn't good enough 70 sew
on his pants."
"ln which n there tho most money
coats, pants or vestsf
II can do better with pants. Vests
would do very well IL It was not for Tho
button-holes to make In them. But coats,
there is mighty little In them. I tell YOU.
There 10 q good deal OF work to make
coats. How people can sew them for .
dollar . dozen I can't understand"
"Don't the manufacturers pay according
to tho amount Of workl"
mo, they seem to pay according 70 the
quality Of the goods, but they require just
Is good and - much work ON the cheap
goods as on the more expensive"
'Then prices are getting lower all the
timci"
Eyes, for work that we used to get e,
G2S, $50 and g WI now get from 90 cents
to &.A